Timing and spectral changes of the Be X-ray transient EXO 0531-6609.2 through high and low state

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2004-02-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402215v2

Astron.Astrophys. 421 (2004) 235-239

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 8 figures, A&A

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20035685

We report on spectral and timing analysis of BeppoSAX data of the 13.6 s period transient X-ray pulsar EXO 0531-6609.2. Observations were carried out in March 1997 and October 1998, catching the source during a high and a low emission state, respectively. Correspondingly, the X-ray luminosity is found at a level of 4.2x10^37 erg/s and 1.5x10^36 erg/s in the two states. In the high state the X-ray emission in the energy range 1-100 keV is well fitted by an absorbed power-law with photon index Gamma ~1.7 plus a blackbody component with a characteristic temperature of ~3.5 keV. Moreover, we find an evidence of an iron emission at ~6.8 keV, typical feature in this class of sources but never revealed before in the EXO 0531-6609.2 spectrum. In the low state an absorbed power-law with Gamma ~0.4 is sufficient to fit the 1-10 keV data. During BeppoSAX observations EXO 0531-6609.2 display variations of the pulse profile with the X-ray flux: it showed single peaked and double peaked profiles in the low and high state, respectively. Based on these two observations we infer a spin-up period derivative of -(1.14+/-0.08)x10^-10 s/s. By comparing these with other period measurements reported in literature we find an alternating spin-up and spin-down behaviour that correlates well with the X-ray luminosity.

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